Table of Contents

Introduction: On Resident Koreans in Japan 1. Politics of Legal Status: The Equation of Nationality with Ethnonational Identity 2. On the North Korean Homeland of Koreans in Japan 3. Political Correctness, Postcoloniality and Self-Representation of 'Koreanness' in Japan 4. Mothers write Ikaino 5. Reading Against the Bourgeois and National Bodies: Transcultural Body-Politics in Yu Miri's Textual Representation 6. Cultural Identity in the Work of Yi Yang-ji 7. Korean Ethnic Schools in Occupied Japan, 1945-52 8. Korean Children, Textbooks and Educational Practices in Japanese Primary Schools 9. Kids Between Nations: Ethnic Classes in the Construction of Korean Identities in Japanese Public Schools 10. Ordinary (Korean) Japanese

About the Author

Ryang, Sonia

Reviews

'Its publication will stimulate further detailed research into Zainichi Korean issues and a steady flow of publications in this very important field.' - Social Science Japan Journal'Koreans in Japan is well (re)presented and will be an invaluable source for students of marginalized peoples and of Japanese body politic.' - Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute